The Insider: December 2014

#IMPACTJOURNALISM

Researchers from Harvard’s School of Public Health and Northeastern University recently published a study, based on data from our guide to mass shootings, that found the rate of mass shootings in the United States has tripled since 2011. Read more about their findings here. Also don’t miss: Senior editor Mark Follman’s op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times discussing the team’s research and the importance of tracking these tragic events.

Q&A WITH KIERA BUTLER

Kiera Butler is a MoJo senior editor and author of the new book Raise. She dishes on what inspired her book about 4-H and offers up advice on some of life’s Econundrums. Read all about it.

MOJO EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

We’ve been busy making the rounds with a series of events that have raised our profile and some serious cash. Below are some highlights:

Monika Bauerlein, David Brock, and Lizz Winstead provided engaging conversation at our annual dinner on October 30 in San Francisco, and we raised a total of $660,000 thanks to supporters like you:

David Corn participated in a Chicago Humanities Festival midterms post-mortem with University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics Executive Director Steve Edwards. Watch the recording here.

David also participated in a pre-midterms conversation with MSNBC’s Alex Wagner and the New York Post’s Robert George at the Brennan Center in New York City: